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Sunday, November 1, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here SINGAPORE NEWS - PAGE 16 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 20 Rookie trainer and apprentice jockey score unlikely Read Tomorrow's Issue For: The Week Ahead What's on Victoria Derby victory Race meetings: Goulburn (NSW), Muswellbrook (NSW), Mornington (VIC), Tavistock’s Johnny Get Angry lands Group 1 for premiership Innisfail (QLD), Mount Barker (WA), coach Pagan and son of a gun in King Wanganui (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Muswellbrook (NSW), Mount Barker (WA) International meetings: Sha Tin (HK), Tokyo (JPN), Kyoto (JPN), Fukushima (JPN), Naas (IRE), Hoppegarten (GER), Greyville (SAF) International Group races: Sha Tin (HK) - Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse (Gr 3, 1800m). Tokyo (JPN) - Tenno Sho (Autumn) (Gr 1, 2000m). Naas (IRE) - Athasi Stakes (Gr 3, 7f). Hoppegarten (GER) - Oleander-Rennen (Gr 2, 3200m) Johnny Get Angry GETTYIMAGES time premiership-winning coach Denis Pagan BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS and Lachlan King, the son of champion jockey rookie septuagenarian trainer who Steven King, with their first Group 1. MORNING BRIEFING is better known for his exploits Pagan only gained his restricted owner- at the highest level as a football trainer licence in late June and it was Johnny Ashrun wins way coach and an apprentice jockey Get Angry who was the 73-year-old’s first into Melbourne Cup bornA to ride at Flemington have combined for runner when the gelding ran third in the Taj The Andreas Wohler-trained Ashrun (5 h a remarkable Victoria Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) Rossi Series Final (Listed, 1600m) at Flemington Authorized - Ashantee by Areion) secured victory on an extraordinary day of firsts. on July 4. himself a berth in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup (Gr Johnny Get Angry (Tavistock), a Kiwi-bred "I can't believe it. I didn't think he could do 1, 3200m) by taking out the Lexus Hotham Stakes maiden who had six starts prior to his Derby it. I just wanted to have a runner in it and now he's (Gr 3, 2500m) with a late charge to the line. run, provided Australian Football League two- won it," Pagan said. Continued on page 2>> Morning Briefing page 10 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Rookie trainer and apprentice jockey score unlikely Victoria Derby victory | 2 | Sunday, November 1, 2020 << Continued from page 1 "I'm never emotional. I used to pot Vase (Gr 2, 2040m) the previous Saturday, Pagan opted to put the blinkers Chris Waller for sooking up and now I'm playing him on a break. It just hit on Johnny Get Angry. me. It was something special, I'd never in a million years thought it would An emotional Pagan, who sublets six boxes at Corstens’ Flemington happen and he's done it. stables, admitted to consulting a number of confidants, including fellow "You dream about it and that's all I've thought about for the last two trainer John Sadler, before pushing ahead with the gear change. months, getting him here, I just wanted to get him into the Derby and he's "Lachie (King) reminded me of it (applying blinkers), Johnny Sadler won it. It's just starting to sink in now, I can't believe it." reminded me of it and Troy (Corstens) said it was a good idea, so I asked In the immediate aftermath everybody in Australia and they all said the same thing," he said. of the race a jubilant Troy Pagan’s first winner came just three weeks after his first runner when YOU DREAM ABOUT Corstens, a training mentor to then two-year-old gelding Frankie Two Angels (Medaglia d’Oro) won at IT AND THAT'S ALL Pagan, embraced the former Sandown on July 22, the football coach-turned-real estate agent-cum- I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT North Melbourne and Carlton trainer’s fourth runner. FOR THE LAST TWO coach, which saw Racing King, whose father won the Derby in 1991 on Star Of The Realm MONTHS, GETTING HIM Victoria stewards fine the former (Imperial Prince) and 12 years later on Helenus (Helissio), has ridden all HERE, I JUST WANTED $1000 for the Covid-19 protocol of Pagan’s 12 starters and the trainer stuck by him in the Group 1. TO GET HIM INTO THE breach. Fellow Flemington "Everyone was telling me I should use a senior jockey. I wanted to DERBY AND HE'S WON trainer Saab Hasan was also stick with Lachie, who has stuck with me," Pagan said. IT. IT'S JUST STARTING fined $1000 for the same offence. The loyalty shown by Johnny Get Angry’s trainer was not lost on King TO SINK IN NOW, I After running home from who admitted to considering retirement earlier this year bar for some CAN'T BELIEVE IT. back in the field to finish third, encouragement from Pagan, the Corstens and his father. - DENIS PAGAN seven and a quarter lengths "I can't believe it. It's so amazing. I thought I had awoken from a behind Cherry Tortoni (Night Of dream when he hit the line and had won the race," 22-year-old King said. Thunder), in the Moonee Valley In a slowly run Derby, Johnny Get Angry Continued on page 3>> ANZ ALL MM SHOUT THE BAR Not a Single Doubt-Drinks All Round VRC EMPIRE ROSE STAKES G1 THRILLER! $200,000 2018 GOLD COAST YEARLING SALE Vendor: Newhaven Park Buyer: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Earnings: $1,590,925 Owners: Mystery Downs, Mrs C M Cook, Bangaloe Stud, Bamboo Bloodstock, Mr G A Kelly, Vasamiry, Mr A C Poole, Mr I W Patrick, Three Wise Men Racing, Mr T L Hastings, Mr B A Ainsworth, Mr G Lee, Jokes Sport Racing Trainers: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott 2ND ODEUM, 3RD FORBIDDEN LOVE, 4TH CHAILLOT CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL CONNECTIONS www.magicmillions.com.au Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Rookie trainer and apprentice jockey score unlikely Victoria Derby victory | 3 | Sunday, November 1, 2020 << Continued from page 2 ($21) defeated Hit The Shot (Dundeel) Group 1 winner he's ($7) by a length with Young Werther (Tavistock) ($3.40 favourite) a short picked out." I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. IT'S SO neck away in third to become the fourth maiden in the past 30 years to Raised at Michelle win the race. Norman and Dave AMAZING. I THOUGHT I HAD Preferment (Zabeel) (2014) was the last maiden three-year-old to take Keenan’s Kilmore AWOKEN FROM A DREAM WHEN out the Derby. Farm in Matamata, HE HIT THE LINE AND HAD WON Hit The Shot’s trainer Matt Cumani, who was also aiming for his Johnny Get Angry was THE RACE, first Group 1 win, said: "They went too slow early for him. I've got to be prepared for sale by - LACHLAN KING impressed by the way he finished. He's a serious horse." Casey and Michelle Damien Oliver said Young Werther “had his chance”. "He ran well. The Dando of Bradbury winner just outstayed us on the day," the jockey said. Park for the Karaka sale. Johnny Get Angry (3 g Tavistock - Luminova by Zabeel) was selected Casey Dando, who was a flatmate of Corstens in the mid-90s, recalled by Troy Corstens under his Malua Racing and Flemington Bloodstock Johnny Get Angry as a raw staying type. banner for Pagan at the 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Yearling “It didn’t matter what sort of feed I threw at him he just didn’t fill up. Sale. Pagan paid NZ$50,000 for the son of Tavistock (Montjeu), who was He went to the sales still looking a big, lean tank. One thing I will give him, devastatingly euthanised at Cambridge Stud last year. he was an athletic horse,” Dando said. The three-year-old has now won $1,268,675 in prize-money from his seven “It’s a massive thrill. We had five farm graduates in Derbys last year starts which includes a further three placings, two of them at stakes level. and couldn’t get a placing. "I just love the Tavistock horses and I just try to get as many as I can out “To actually get one up, especially the VRC Derby at headquarters of Zabeel or Galileo mares," Pagan said. (Flemington), is a huge thrill. "Troy (Corstens) is the best in the world, he sourced it for me, he “It’s off the back of raising the New Zealand Filly of The Year (Jennifer negotiated with the bloke (breeder) and how he got it for $50,000 I'll never Eccles) and South Island Three-Year-Old Filly of The Year (Miss Federer) know. He did a terrific job and he's got all my horses and it's another last year. It has been a big 18 months for us.” Continued on page 5>> Follow us @anz_news | 3 | Brought to you by Johnny Get Angry (NZ) (Tavistock) wins the Gr.1 Victoria Derby (2500m) Visit. Invest. Win. www.nztm.co.nz Rookie trainer and apprentice jockey score unlikely Victoria Derby victory | 5 | Sunday, November 1, 2020 << Continued from page 3 Johnny Get Angry is the first winner for Luminova, who was placed in New Zealand and Australia before being purchased for $85,000 at the 2015 Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale. She is a daughter of Listed winner and Group 1-performed Pavlova (Singspiel). Luminova has a yearling colt by Cambridge Stud shuttler Almanzor (Wootton Bassett) and was covered by Reliable Man (Dalakhani) last year. Yulong Prince to find home at stud after Cantala victory Yulong Prince (Gimmethegreenlight), a striking South Africa-bred black entire who became Yuesheng Zhang’s first Group 1 winner in Australia, will join the Chinese businessman’s burgeoning Victorian Yulong Prince SPORTPIX stallion roster at the end of his racing career after yesterday’s breakthrough Cantala Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) victory.